sickee

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Perhaps sick +‎ -ee; perhaps a variant of sickie.

Noun[edit]

sickee (plural sickees)

  1. (informal, rare) A person who is unwell.
    • 2007, Ramon Carver, Best and Worst Travels, page 2:
      Messy, those poor sickees staggered around the ship, easily identifiable from their sponged-off shirts 86 blouses and ashen complexions.
    • 2013, Stanley Einstein, Beyond Drugs, page 203:
      The main point is that once we view a person who is using drugs as being a “sickee,” we automatically fall into the trap of assuming and recommending treatment for him.
    • 2019, Hadley Hoover, Botched Boundaries (LP), page 138:
      Stomach flu can come on quickly, and no one wants to be around a sickee.
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